The sheriff and the sheriff's son are crossover characters from FROM DUSK TIL DAWN 1 & 2 (same actors, same roles), so those "extreme stereotypes" were in place before KILL BILL.

Now that people have mentioned Five Fingers of Death I just recalled that the flashbacks are similar to that film as well. They are both shot in a sepia tone and both use the same music, that siren sound. That film also has a revenge type plot and focuses on his eyes when they do the flashback if I remember correctly.

QT interview with more referrences:

http://japattack.com/japattack/film/tarantino.html

I was simply amazed when I sat there watching the movie and the sound of the title theme for Isaac Hayes' "Truck Turner" movie began to play........I owned this sucker when it came out on vinyl, being a Hayes/blaxploitation fan, and if one looks around it can be found on CD as well. I LOVE that song!! He also pulled "Run Fay Run" from another Hayes soundtrack action flick, Tough Guys. Great, great stuff. QT really catered to scads of cult film geeks like us with this movie .

Love the fact that QT would have used Bruce and Alexander Fu Sheng !

Fu Sheng is a total legend!

HAH!! TRUCK TURNER!!

I knew I had heard that before..

The movie is CENSORED, which is a reference to The Little Mermaid.

There were a couple of shots out of Tokyo Drifter, or so I thought, but that wasn't one of them. When the lights went out, and the swordfight continued in silhouette, I thought that was an homage to TD, and there was a brief shot in the teahouse from underneath the glass floor as a character (Uma?) walks over it.
I also thought there was something of a Takashi Miike influence, particularly in the character of GoGo (killer kids in Fudoh) but QT has stated that he hadn't seen Fudoh.

My take on Go Go, is as a reference to Sukeban Deka (cute but deadly chicks in schoolgirl uniforms wielding unusual but lethal weapons), but I'm not sure if he's seen those films. Also, others have mentioned that Chiaki wore the same uniform in Battle Royale but I haven't seen the film recently, in order to know for sure.

It's a little more "conservative" in BR, and she actually wears a track suit for most of her part.

Saw the movie a 2nd time tonight and liked it more than I did the first time (where I was getting irritated by cell phones going off left and right and people answering them.)

Also, the Miike Takashi inspirations seem fairly non-existant.. Odd weapons were common back in the day, added with school girl = woo. Fudoh.. they didn't really wield odd weapons, just Uzis-type guns and vaginal blowdarts.

Most obvious to me that I haven't heard mentioned... Uma's yellow outfit reminded me of Bruce Lee's in Game of Death.

The Crazy 88 reminded me of part (2?) of the Samurai Trilogy where Toshiro Mifune fought 44 guys. I thought QT just doubled it.

The aforementioned Tokyo Drifter with the silhouette.

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Ah - trick question! The Willhelm scream is in TWO places. The eye plucking AND the guy down the stairs. First movie I can think of that featured it twice, I believe.

wasn't there a site that listed all of the references to other flicks...?

I'm sure there are tons of sites that list many of the references, but I haven't heard of a definitive one that lists all the references. This very thread seems fairly comprehensive, overall.

David Carridine playing the flute just like in Circle of Iron.

also, when O-ren lifts up the guys head in pt 1, its kind of like how John Lone does in year of the dragon.

In Vol-2, Bride & Elle did a simutaneous kick/knockdown at each other that was reminiscent of the fabulous Jackie Chan/Benny "The Jet" Urqiduez fight in Wheels on Meals.